The narrative that #CSS was initially designed to be static, and only later became responsive with things like media, supports, container queries, and now if()… is maybe how things turned out?
But MQs were part of the original proposal – including document age queries, & user "relevance" queries.
This wasn't a big pivot in the vision of the language, but a more continuous project of realizing that vision in relation to changing author needs & browser capabilities over time.
@jensimmons @mia might just be an hallucination, but I remember being able to explicitly select an alternative stylesheet in the browser menu, and loved when developers had supplied fun ones. (I used to do the same).
I wish it existed now.
it still works on firefox!
though it's hidden in the menu, which isn't shown by default
to see it:
Alt → View → Page Style → Select the desired stylesheet
for a page with multiple stylesheets to test it on: https://mdn.github.io/css-examples/alt-style-sheets/
is there any way to access this on @zenbrowser ?
i can't figure out how to make the menu appear
Mia (web luddite)
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